Windows 7 to Windows 10 Upgrade in HP z600

[aypdjamur]

I have a z600 hp with windows 7 pro and Intel Xeon E5620 specifications with 8gb ram and 2 TB HDD, can I upgrade to windows 10? and is the process normal like a normal windows upgrade?

[DGroves]

while  the HP z600 is Win-10 compatible hardware wise,

HP never officially tested and certified this OS

although some win 10 drivers are posted

all required motherboard drivers either have

a HP or device mfg. driver available 

you can update from win 7 to win 10,  however you must keep the

OS the same so win 7 home 32bit

can do a inplace update  to windows 10 home 32bit not 64bit 

since current video card drivers are only 64bit along with most

other drivers i strongly recommend a NEW/CLEAN win 10/11 x64 install

also microsoft stopped the free win 7 pro license upgrade

to win 10 pro some time ago meaning your win 10 install will

need a serial for activation, as such i recommend you buy

a  system builder OEM win 10/11 professional key from a online seller

or a official MS OEM DVD/Key package if you want the physical install disk

last win 10 support will end this year so you may want to install win 11 which

can be made to install using a modified installer that skips the hardware checks

google "Rufus win 11 install on unsupported hardware"

[SDH]

Agree. I have a couple of Z600 v2 workstations running W11 Pro 64 in my stash here, and you state yours is running W7 64-bit. Is yours a v1 or a v2 motherboard? Look in BIOS for the boot block date for that, which is important to know for several reasons so post that once you find your boot block date. If you'd like to move up to significantly better technology I'd recommend a Z440 or a Z4 G4 instead.

I fully agree that a clean install is best, but you might try an in-place upgrade from W7 to W11. That worked for me on one of the two. Old drivers tend to get pulled along up into the new build in that situation, which is not as ideal.

W10Pro64 licenses are quite inexpensive these days, unused and official. In my experience those work also for W11Pro64 installs (which are always 64-bit). You can even get W11Pro64 licenses unused for reasonable cost. I use the Rufus 4.6 method to install, and there are good youtube videos on how to do that, such as HERE . Paul Tikkanen in the forum likes another approach.  Make sure to use a good modern SATA SSD as your boot drive, at least 512GB size. Do you know you can put in a HP Texas Instruments based USB3 PCIe card, which uses the same TI chipset as what was next used in the Z420/Z620/V820 workstations? Those HP cards were specifically built to bring USB3 to the ZX00 generation... just don't get the NEC (Renasus) one HP released earlier.

So many improvements have come to technology since the ZX00 generation you really should look at the costs for a recycled Z440 first if you're going to start a significant project.

[aypdjamur]

thank you for the answer, I was greatly helped by the answer, at first I was hesitant to update to windows 10 but the application I use requires updating to that version